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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
FAT AND FEVER,
Rational Feeding Far Better Than the
Commonly Accepted Cramming System.

Rational Feeding Far Better Than the
Commonly Accepted Cramming System.
Early maturity" has driven pork
from thousands of tables, because the
stomachs would not stand so much fat.
Nor can people tolerate excessive fat
in beef, for the sufficient reason that
they don't like it, and it costs too much
to buy two pounds of so-called beef, of
which only one furnishes food The
number of persons who will eat fat is
growing less every day. One-third of
the average ham is thrown away be-
cause no one except an old-timer will
eat the fat, and probably one-fourth of
the costly roasts and steaks are cut off
and wasted, as far as food is concerned.
The butcher is obliged to trim off a
great deal and sell it for tallow, and of
the remainder which reaches the table
a considerable part goes back again to
the kitchen and thence to the garbage
box. Why not furnish class of meats
more lean, which do not weigh so much
nor cost so much? The end, profit,
would be reached just as well and more
meat would be demanded as more could
be purchased and eaten.
A long-continued over-fatness will
reduce the vigor of an animal, and if it
ever has posterity they will be less
strong than the offspring of the more
muscular and more active. Such a
race of any kind of animals are always
sick or suffering from some form of in
jury. There is too much attempt to
get big weight in short time. My
pigs often disappoint buyers because
they are not fatter. One thing l am
sure of-that with the average buyer
they will not run down on their hands,
which is always the case when stock
are purchased from those breeders who
''shoVe them or cram them from birth.
We must breed the body first, and then
add the fat when the time comes to
have it, and then only put on enough to
fill out the animal and not make it I'M
fit for food on account of excess of fat
and fever. There is more science in
this kind of feeding and breeding than
in the examining system, where fat
makes beauty and symmetry. My
standard of handsome relates to ulti-
mate value.-F. D. Curtis, IN N Y.
Tribune
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
DON'T KEEP YOU WARM.
Evidence from History that Whisky Does
Not Ward Off the Cold.

Evidence from History that whisky Does
Not Ward OF the Cold.
Father L. Loison, famous Temper
ance priest of Cologne, Germany, who
has given much attention to the study
of the question from every standpoint.
writes thus upon the popular fallacy
that whisky is preventive of cold or a
safeguard against it, eff whisky were
really protection against cold, it
would undoubtedly be used in prefer
ence to every thing else by those who,
for the sake OF exploring the polar re-
gions, go there and suffer almost I'M
bearable cold and other hardships
Yet we are told that most of them do
not touch whisky at all, preferring to
confine themselves to hot tea and
coffee. The same is done by the
whalers in spite of their hard and peril
GUS avocation. The same, at least to
great extent, is practiced by the sailors.
AS physicians serving in the navy and
seamen in general tell us, they are
more thoroughly and much better pro-
tected against cold and sickness with
out whisky than with it. Such are the
facts. Still there are many who look
upon whisky as one of the best means
of protection against the winters cold;
hence they indulge in it. But what is
frequently the consequence thereof?
Sudden and unexpected deaths from
exposure to the very cold against which
they sought to protect themselves.
DIR. Schulz, an army surgeon during
the Russian war, says: The first ones
found dead from exposure were Cos
sacks who had been addicted to drilk-
ing. The three thicknesses of fur, in
which they had wrapped themselves
and which should have been impene-
trable to the cold, had proved INSULT
Gent History tells us that Charles
XII, of Sweden, in one of his wars
lost 1000 men by their being frozen to
death, and what was the cause of this
calamity? Whisky again; for exposed
as they were to the rigors of the eli
mate, they had taken refuge in this
treacherous means of protection and
persisted. And have not our parents
and grandparents told us time and
again that many of the great French
army were found dead on the ICY fields
of Russia, the whisky bottle in their
grasp? Hence you see that whisky
can not be recommended against cold"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
Killing" eli. nate for GuzzIers.

There are more standardization to
one - in America tn. IN IN Germany,
yet far less number OF the people
drink at ALL The German Consul, Tan
ner, explains this by a g Inference in
the manner of drinking. B, II IN this
he does not go to the root of me mat
ter. Why, we may ask him, d. YES the
difference in the mode exist? Simply
because the greater portion of tie
drinking class in America drink for the
sake of getting drunk, They pour
down glass after glass, as quickly rs;
may be, that they may the more speedily
reach the drunken stage. This points
to a fact that our Consul does not meNs-
tion-that the class in America who
get drunk Speaking in the general
sense) are of lower grade morally
than the mass of the drinkers in Ger.
many. Intemperance is becoming tie:
wee of the low, the immoral, the ig-.
nOrant Americans. She educated, the;
intelligent, the thinking portion of the
community eschew it.
Another point still in his report en-
lists our attention. Speaking of the
general drinkingin Germany, Mr.. Tan
ner says that it is claimed that, ''im
order to counterfeit the depressing eff
fects of the cold, sunless, humid climate,
of Europe, which has the tendency to,
carry on the animal functions with Ian.
guor and feebleness, stimulants are.
necessary to arouse those functions to,
that degree of activity and vigor en-
joyed by others that are more favored
in this respect"
Now, supposing this to be true, it
affords a most excellent reason against,
drinking at all in America. Our
bright, clear skies, our sunny climate
compared with that of Northern Eu--
rope, and above all our dry, crisp,
electric atmosphere, render no excuse
whatever for drinking. The truth of
the matter is that intOxicants act more
slowly, less violently, in such climate
as Mr.. Tanner describes. They act
with maximum rapidity in its opposite,
our climate, and their evil effects are
much sooner experienced. - IOfetIo
Blnde
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

A BLAIR (Neb.) banker invested
$4,000 and house and lot in whisky.
which he consumed in eighteen months.
His bank is closed Chicago TTib-
me.
THERE has not been liquor saloon
in Hancock County, w. Va, for forty
years. This accounts for the fact that
there is not prisoner in the county
Jail, and the grand jury failed to find a
single Indictment.
IT is estimated that if bounty were
offered for dead snakes the serpent
tribe of the United States would be-
exterminated in ten years. Scarcely
The distilleries are all running
Boston Transcript.
LAST words of a murderer: "When
my strangled body hangs between
heaven and earth, may all who look
upon it imagine they hear me say
This is the work Of rum. Is it nothing
to you, all We that pass by?'" :
A PROMINENT life insurance man in
Hartford, Conn, is reported as saying
that his experience and the records of
life insurance have shown him that
young men of twenty years of age who
abstain entirely from all kinds Of intOx-
icating drinks have good prospect of
living to be sixty-four years of age;
while the moderate drinker at twenty
years of age can only expect to live to
be thirty-fve and half years.
A MISERABLE article is now adver-
tised, said to be sold by 'all druggists,
fancy grocers and frst-class liquor
dealers throughout the United States. -
1t is way of drinking whisky, brandy,
or gin, or port, sherry, madeira, etc,
as the advertisement says, "without OBJ
.servation even in the most criticising
surroundings" They are recommend
ed to orators, actors and singers,
lowing to the unobserved manner in
which they can be utilized to overcome
fatigue and over-exertiOn. " If ''all
druggists" sell them as advertised,
then great many Christian druggists
are doing the devils work. Christian
.AGCOcdte.
THERE is not city of any magni-
tude in the country in which the sa-
looms, the rum power, have not en-
deavored TO control the city govern
ment If they can not control it di-
rectly, by force of numbers, they do it
by fear. They make men afraid to
take active measures against them. if
they can not control them as active
partisans. The saloon wants the earth,
and already imagines that it is dispos-
.sessed thereof by the decent classes of
society. 1t must be disabused of this
idea. 1t must be shown that it lives
by sufferance, where it does exist, and
not by right. 1t is an insolent, over
bearing, despotic tyrant, desperately
endeavoring to erect an empire of rum
on the ruins of all that is COED AID
pure, Toledo Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
TEMPERANCE READING.
THE PRAYING BAND.
A Crusade Incident.


A Crusade Incident.
: How are you, Jack? Forgotten mes 1t isn't
strange, for we
Are not the same as when we played together,
you and met
That first glass was my fatal cup; I've been
wreck since then,
And you have conquered self, but sell the
curse to other men.
sim sick tonight, Jack, head and heart; send
out the drunken crowd;
The songs go through my reehng brain, the
talk is rough and loud.
Sit down together till we tell what life has
been to each;
To me? Tn but a bleaching corpse upon
sandy beach.
Ten years ago, that fatal night need not
tell the rest
You know drunkard's life is one of SORROW at
the best%
This very baE-I drank it here--ah, Jack, IL YOU
could feel
How every glass does crush home, and
pierce some heart with steel!
could you but hear my mothers sobs and
prayers for one like me;
Could you but sec the starving wives and
children's agony!
'AIl are not drunkardsS No, but all walk the
same downward way
That has one entrance, at the bar; one end,
the Judgment day.
"rve come q long, long way; it seems as
though my brain were wild;
thought I'd like to be again where I was
once child.
wonder if my mother now would know her
only son?
She lives? Her hair is winter And that is.
what my sin has done.
"rve heard that women come to pray within
these haunts of sin: !,
They have been hereg Oh blessed faithl .
and you have let them in?
Perhaps they'll come again; there's need for
sinners such as we; I
Perhaps, among the praying bands, my moth
er'n come to me. !
Jack, how my brain throbs; am weak; give
me place tonight; !
I'm poor although my fathers house is near,
and warm and bright"
/
tive slept so long. thought perhaps I should
not wake again.
Open the door-I think hear sweet familiar
strain
Nearer, my Cod to Thee oh, yes! I've heard
that long ago;
And now they pray so earnestly, so touching
ly, so low!
" Hark! there's voice! Do raise me up; don't
let me lose word!
white-haired woman prays for Jack, and
then she tells the Lord
About her boy, her precious boy, her hope,
her only one,
Taking his first glass where she kneels; and
then, with tenderest tone,
while others weep, she begs poor Jack, for
every mothers sake,
For every boys, for hers, for Christ's, the
dealers pledge to take.
She comes this way-'tis she! tits she! seem
to lose my breath.
Mother, dear mother oh, my sonr Can
this cold chill be death!
i've been hayward boy, forgive, as God,
think, has done;
Bury these last ten wretched years with your
repentant son:
Call Jack! You'll pledge to sell no more? I
want to clasp your hands,
It's dark so dark! Don't cease the work!
God bless the praying bands.''
Sarah X, Bottom in Union !Si1ndL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
ChoIera's Ally.

Father Loison, the eminent German
Temperance advocate, speaking of~the
popular delusion that whisky is pre-
ventative of cholera, says: "Whisky
first excites the nerves and then relaxes
them; and no sooner has the relaxa-
ton taken place than the body becomes
susceptible to every kind of outside in
fuences, and what is worse, unable to
resist them. Hence the fact that in
times of contagious diseases whisky
drinkers, as rule, are the first taken
and generally the most seriously, too.
A statement which you can not help
corroborating if you ever witnessed a
time when cholera or dysentery were
raging. / know of one place in par
ticular where cholera upon its first out
break killed great many people, and
two-thirds of them were whisky
drinkers. A certain professor of medi-
cine, celebrated for his learning, says:
If | were allowed to do so l would, in
time of cholera, place above the en-
trance to every tavern and whisky
shop this inscription: Cholera for
sale" When once, in one of the larger
cities of Scotland, cholera was raging,
out of every 100 whisky-drinkers taken
with it 81 died. Between the years
1881 and 1867 there died, as statistics
show, in the whole of Prussia 100000
people with cholera, the largest pro-
portion of whom being found in those
districts where whisky-drinking was
common
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

New tins should be set over the fire
with boiling water in them for several
hours before food is placed into them.
Prof. Arnold says that permanent
pastures and meadows are great insti-
buttons in the eyes of lazy and dull men.
"A common hoe, Strengthened out
by blacksmith, makes a cheap and
excellent implement for chopping roots
for stock.
-Gruel.-Fill spider half full of
water, stir in meal, being sure not to
get too much; let it boil FIVE minutes,
then pour in enough milk to nearly
fill the spider; let it boil fifteen min
utes longer; add sugar to taste and eat
hot.-The Ploa0mGn.
Prof Forbes says that at least sew
enty per cent. of the apples now de-
stroyed or injured by the coddling
moth may be saved to ripening by one
or more sprayings with Paris green,
made in early spring, while the fruit is
not larger than hazelnut.- Chicago
Journal.
For sudden hoarseness roast lemon
in the oven, turning now and then that
all sides may be equally cooked. 1t
should not crack OF burst, but be soft
all through. Take the lemon while
very hot, cut a piece from the top, fill
it with as much sugar as it will hold,
and eat on going to bed. Exchange.
Lilly of the valley in the open gar
den, or in slight shade, is hardy plant
that blooms without especial attention.
The only requirement is the health of
the plants. 1t sometimes occurs that
young plants in quite rich soil make a
strong growth for year or two with
out blooming, but it is only because of
their rank growth, and afterward they
will be found to bloom annually.
Cup pudding is something for des-
sert which never fails to please the
younger members of the family. Make
batter as if for waffles. To one pint
of milk allow two eggs and enough
flour to thicken. One teaspoonful of
baking powder should be stirred into
the flour. Fill sufficient number of
tea cups with this and with fruit if you
wish-currants and raisins in layers.
Then set the cups in a steamer and let
the water boil underneath for a full
hour, serve while hot with sugar and
butter sauce or cream. Jam or chopped
apples can be used in place of currants
and raisins.-DetroG Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
TREES ALONG ROADS.
A Suggestion Which Merits Consideration
by Farmers Everywhere.

A suggestion Which Merits Consideration
by Farmers Everywhere.
Computing public roads on all the
section lines-that is, around each sec
tion-a single township of Sc square
miles would contain 70 miles of road
way, which at the usual width rods
would give an area of SIC acres, al
most an entire section. In one State,
say $4,000 square miles or 1,400 town
ships, this would form a grand aggre-
gate of 806, 400 acres, the number of
miles of roadway being 100000. If set
every 169 feet along each side of this
roadway, 64,512,000 trees could be
grown-enough to furnish the whole
State with nuts and fruits, and big
surplus for export besides. ''But
the boys would steal them ALL"
Yes, another of my oversights. But
we would have good healthy lot of
boys, for awhile, unless they picked
them too green, IN which case what a
estate of collie there would be. Seri-
ously, though, it seems a pity to have
such an enormous frontage of land ly-
ing bleak, bare and uninviting, when
it could be made so pleasant, beautiful
and productive. All these roadways
have strip of land on each side next
the fences or line of roadway in alb
sence of fences, that is worse than use
less. Upon it congregate and grow
undisturbed all those noxious weeds
and plants dreaded and fought against
by the farmer. They are constantly
disseminating their prolific species
along the adjacent farms. Occasional
spasmodic warfare is made against
them; but in the main they enjoy I'M
disputed sway.
Now why not make it the duty of the
road overseer in each road district to
apply portion of the delinquent road
tax, and portion of the labor at his
disposal, to the planting and main
tenance of trees along the roadway?
It is too frequently the custom for men
and boys to turn out and make sort
of play-day, when called to work out
their road tax. The road overseers
usually wink at this, because they like
a little holiday themselves, and it is no
money out of their pocket anyway.
Now by exacting good, faithful labor
from every taxpayer, to the amount
of his tax, this work of improvement
can be accomplished without detriment
to the road interests proper. This is a
subject we'll worth our consideration. =
W Il. Boynt0n, IN Prairie Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Meyerbeer, the composer. could
whistle Yankee Doodle" when three
years old.
Governor Lee, of Virginia. is SAID
to be the champion checker-player of
the South.
Earnest Word was the name of a
member of the Georgia Legislature who
died recently.
Warren Green, ex-Consul, to Kan
agawa, says that the wife of the Mikado
is charming woman and a graduate
of Vassar.
Major M. E. Page, the new editor
of the Brooklyn Union, has worked
himself up through all the degrees of
newspaper life.
The Plonk family in Lincolntom,
N. c., is long-lived. Joseph is now 9S
years old; his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is
100 years, and Mrs. Weaver, another
sister, is 102 years of age.
Mrs. Hugh Jones and her sister,
Mrs. Jane Ryan, of Erie, and another
sister who resides in Wales, have fallen
hem to f1,000,000, the estate of q
brother who died recently in Calcutta.
Justice w. B. Woods, of the Su.
preme Court of the United States, has
taken leave of absence of one year
from the bench. His health has not
been good for a year past, and rest
was indispensable.
General Phil Sheridan, General
Thomas L. James, General N. P.
Banks, Ben: Perley Poore and Benja-
min P. Shillaber, who wrote the Mrs.
Darlington articles, all began life as
newsboys or printers devils. IN Y.
Herald.
A monument is to be erected to
Paul H. Hayne over his grave in Au-
gusta, Ga, and the chairman of the
committee to receive contributions is
James r. Randall, of the Augusta
Chronicle, author of Maryland, Ny
Maryland"
Speaking of the royal manner in
which President Arthur entertained his
successor on Inauguration day, a
Washington correspondent reverts to
the story that John Adams packed up
his effects and left Washington the
night before Jefferson was sworn in,
John Quincy Adams was out hunting
during the ceremonies which inaugur-
ted General Chicago Herald.
Miss Alden, of New York, is one of
the handsomest of Americas handsome
girls. She is accomplished in music
and painting, and very fond of out-of-
door sports. She was greatly admired
while recently in Rome, and received
marked attention from one of the Car
dinals, and from the Pope the day she
was presented. Miss Alden is the
original of Turner's picture of ''Miles
Standish's Courtship. IN Y. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
TEN YEARS AGO.

Ten years agol why, now to me
1t seems as if but yesterday
walked this street-it can not be
That have been so long away,
Yet memory whispers, saying low:
Ten years ago."
Unchanged the streets; the houses, too,
And gray old church with steeple high;
But OH the faces all are new,
They idly stare and pass me by.
There were a few unknown faces, though
Ten years ago.
No friends to greet me as pass!
No clasp of hands, no voices sweet;
Am l a stranger here? Alas
IT'S foreign soil beneath my feet.
How strange-it strikes me like blow
Ten years ago.
Is this the house that she adorned?
My sweetheart with her serious eyes,
Who, by the door-belrs tinkle warned,
Came quickly and in glad surprise
To meet me on the steps below
Ten years ago?
Was that the yard where mother stood,
And watched me on my way to town;
My little mother, true and good,
With dewdrops in her eyes Of brown;
Watching the boy she cherished so,
Ten years ago?
Ten years ago; how sad it seems
TO sift the ashes of the past,
And find the embers Of my dreams
Have lost their youthful flame at last;
That fire that made my bosom glow
Ten years ago.
Give me the sunny past again;
Beat back the slow and sullen years,
Strike but one chord of truth, and then
My eyes shall fill with happy tears;
For was but boy, you know,
Ten years ago.
--krnest McQa6eN, In Inter ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
FUN IN PROSPECT.
The GIee of a Bad Boy Who Was Well
Acquainted with His Parents.

The GIee of Bad Boy Who Was Well
Acquainted with His Parents.
A small boy, just old enough to be
tough, was laughing in manner that
threatened heart-disease when COM
panion met him.
whats de matter, JIMMY"
"Oh, g'way from me. See that man
sittin' in the steps with a newspaper in
his hand?"
E'Yes.''
"Well, that there's my pap, an he's
readin' about volcano that's been dis
covered in the United States"
THAT'S nothin' much.
Say, see that woman goin' in his
direction?n
yep
swell, that there's ma'am, and
ma'am sent pap to the grocery after a
peck of potatoes about an hour ago,
and what I'm a-laffin about is how
much pap is interested in volcanoes
now and how tired they will make him
after he runs against q real one. -
MerchQi1t Trdueler. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
HuMILIATINe SYMPTOMS.

The Terrible Burden of Shame WhichI
/ Many Bear on Account of Their Fathers!
+: Sin.
In no class of people does heredityi
do more disastrous work than in the:
descendants of drinkers, whether ex-
cessive or moderate. A morbid appe-
tlte for liquor in such cases, with the
disadvantage of an inherited nerve de-,
generation, may manifest itselfin many
terrible FORMS among these many
forms are the ordinary symptoms of i'm
toxieation IN a person perfectly tenn;
perate.
DR.. Crothets, of Hartford, Conn.,.
presents many such cases in paper
read before the, American Association;
for the Cure Of Inebriates, and pub
lished in the Alit mist and NeurolOgist.
The first cases that attracted his at
tention were two b oyss sons of drunk
ards, in the Hartford Deaf and Dumb.
Asylum, who had sho wn clear signs of
intoxication from their birth. He was
afterward surprised to find such cases.
not uncommon. In some persons the
symptoms are present all the time,i
either appe airing at birth, or slowly de-
veloping with the growth of the CHI Id
Mos of such cases show other markt d
india 'ations of physical degeneration
as i0iocy, imbecility, or bodily de-S
formitv.
In secOnd class of cases, almost anY
excitement is sufficient to bring on an,
attack. This class may include per-
sons of avel age intellect, and even of.
genius. In them the neurotic (nerve),
degeneration may, at a later date, end,
in imbecility or insanity. A farmer;
ffty-four years old, man of wealth:
and character, whose father was a.
drunkSrd, but who himself never used
any kind of spirits, showed symptoms
of irttoN cation after meeting with an
accident from runaway horse. At
the funeral of child, some months
later, I,is family were greatly mortified
at his silly language, staggering gait,
and other marked symptoms of intoxi-
cation. A year later similar attack
followed the bn rning of some buildings
on his farm N'mth's Companion.